Re: indent lost after \placefigure

[Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>]

On Thursday 11 February 2010 18:55:01 Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> > PS: Your opinion is not so humble, and I do not really see the rational
> > why indentnext=no is the default for most things* rather than
> > indentnext=auto.
> 
> Below is my understanding of ConTeXt's design principle (Hans or Taco
>  should correct me if I am wrong). Content should be separate from
>  presentation. This means that indentation should be a function of
>  semantics, and not of how you format your source. So
> 
>      some text ...
>      \startitemize
>        \item
>        \item
>      \stopitemize
>      some more text
> 
> and
> 
>      some text
> 
>      \startitemize
>         \item
>         \item
>      \stopitemize
> 
>      some more text ...
> 
> should give the same result. If you want an item group that does not start
>  a paragraph, and an item group that starts a new paragraph, then they are
>  two different objects and you should define two different environments for
>  them.
> 
>      \defineitemgroup[spitemize] %single para
>                      [indentnext=no,
>                       before=\blank,
>                       after=\blank]
> 
>     \defineitemgroup[mpitemize] %multi para
>                     [indentnext=yes,
>                      before={\blank[big]},
>                      after={\blank[big]}]
> 
> 
> Then you can use \startspitemize or \startmpitemize dependening on what you
> want. The way you format the source does not matter.
> 
> Aditya

That is really "ugly": different cases of itemize...

If indeed the design principle that you describe is true,
then I would *strongly* argue that one should get rid of
a blank line separating paragraphs and *require* the use of \par

I don't totally agree with this, as I think that the document source
should look as simple as possible, and paragraphs separated by blank
lines do a lot to make the text readable, more so than

\par
A new paragraph.

Alan
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